Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review
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Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review
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#2The intelligence to found and lead a successful startup is not the same intelligence required to distinguish thoughtful, well-considered political opinions.
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#3>>Gawker, which had covered his political activities negatively and outed him as gay in 2007
I know it's not good for free pres when a billionaire funds whatever lawsuit he can find against you, but outing someone, is really, really sleazy. So I guess they're even. Kinda.
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#4The intelligence to found and lead a successful startup is not the same intelligence required to distinguish thoughtful, well-considered political opinions.
If only he had the right kind of intelligence...
Have you considered the benefits of phrenology lately? It's all the rage in Silicon Valley.
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#5The intelligence to found and lead a successful startup is not the same intelligence required to distinguish thoughtful, well-considered political opinions.
Well, he is smart, by whatever metric we judge people today.
Two degrees from Stanford, job at top law firms and, at least lucky in several start ups.
The fact that he is rich means that people will listen to him more.
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#6How much damage has Peter Thiel done to free speech? This is what Peter Thiel will be remembered for.
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#7>>Gawker, which had covered his political activities negatively and outed him as gay in 2007 I know it's not good for free pres when a billionaire funds whatever lawsuit he can find against you, but outing someone, is really, really sleazy. So I guess they're even. Kinda.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You walked the line between "being okay with Peter Thiel destroying gawker" and "being okay with a billionaire destroying press", so you're probably getting downvoted from both sides. :]
SlateStarCodex had a really good book review on David Friedman's "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours". One of the systems he covered is Iceland, which a court conviction allows you to go take things from the person who wronged you, by force. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-syste...
But the issue is maybe you're not a great fighter, or you're old. You might not be comfortable taking things from someone by force. That's okay, because medieval iceland allowed you to sell the lawsuit/conviction to another party, and allow them to collect.
It resulted in a system that actually had a most valid lawsuits being pursued, because there were people willing to carry them out themselves. Kinda cool, and it feels similar to how Peter Thiel supported Hulk Hogan. And I'm pretty okay with it!
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#8How much damage has Peter Thiel done to free speech? This is what Peter Thiel will be remembered for.
s/Peter Thiel/Gawker/g;
there, fixed it for you.
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#10How much damage has Peter Thiel done to free speech? This is what Peter Thiel will be remembered for.
I think you're asking a rhetorical question where the answer is in the affirmative. But I would actually like to know how much damage Peter Thiel has done to free speech.
Gawker broke the law. It's great they got ended.